I have a Java app - although the answer here should be the same regardless of whether it is Java, Ruby, Python, etc. - that I would like to distribute in such a way that when devops folk go to install ...

Till now I had no real need to learn bash and init scripts as I need to at this point. I have created a custom Twitter app that is persistently, or constantly, connected to the API. It does tasks like ...

When I install packages I don't go through every package and its dependency by hand and check if it installs a daemon which listens on a public interface. Obviously I want to avoid this and would like ...

I have the latest version of freshclam and clamav installed, and in the past (when I had Ubuntu 14.10) it has only run freshclam automatically a few times a day, but has not been running all the time. ...

I would like to make live555ProxyServer as a daemon service which would start each time my pc reboots.
How do I properly implement start and stop in init.d script file?
This is what I have right now
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Ubuntu 12.04 on an AMD64 Fujitsu industrial PC. Ports are on Shentek PCI cards, the "manager" daemon insmods the xr17v35x driver (using the system call with the command in a buffer), then starts the ...

I am facing an issue with a script I have kicked off through /etc/service and is using runit.
My script at /etc/service/myApp/run looks like:
#!/bin/bash
cd /src
forever -l forever.log -o out.log -e ...

I updated to Ubuntu Vivid the other day, and now I am having problems. I cannot get dnscrypt-proxy to start (amongst other programs). I am guessing it has to do with the systemd switch. This is what ...

I'm looking for a way to get a list of all the services (/etc/init.d or upstart or systemd), which are supposed to be starting (or having been started at) boot.
How do you get a list of all starting ...

I'm still a noob in many ways, but I have been running a Ubuntu home server in various forms for the last two years. Mostly just for my own education, so experimentation and exploration usually guide ...

I have an Ubuntu staging server on AWS which runs a tiny Sinatra app using Thin webserver.
The sinatra app runs some git clone commands when invoked and everything works great when I run rackup from ...